AHAAHAHAHAHHAHAH he spends the next hour swearing.
But really...there is some swearing. He'll then take a break and smoke a cigarette. He'll come back to the rope ("rope") after that and make an attempt to change his angle/slide the cuff further up the desk leg and tug, then concede defeat. When drone shift change happens, he'll wiggle it around/slide the cuff up and down just to see if it attracts any attention, but it’ll be semi-idle.
Once we're into day 004 🙌 Martin 🙌 will tell him about opening the cells by luring the drones to the door...leaving him many, many hours to ponder. (If drone arrival/departure coincides with the announcements, Rust’ll use that to keep track of time.)
He will: eat another mango and observe the drones and their docking stations for about an hour, trying to discern: any patterns in the lights, whether the drones have any obvious (…to someone from 1995) sensors, how and where they’re connected to the stations, and if the stations have any visible cords/plugs.
He’ll also experiment with drawing their attention (which I don’t anticipate yielding any results, but you know). Antics will include: lighting his lighter and extending the flame through the bars, cutting off a chunk of the mattress and flicking it at them, and making noise by banging the lid of the toilet tank down, as well as some good old-fashioned yelling.
All that out of the way, get ready for Even Worse Rope! He’ll try to cut a horizontal slit through the center of a willow shoot—if successful, he’ll thread toilet paper through it, wrapping the end of the roll around the shoot and tying it in whatever semblance of a knot one-ply will allow. If unsuccessful at carving the slit, he’ll wrap even more of the toilet paper around the shoot (over and over and over), knot it as best he can, moisten it with…toilet water (doing his best not to touch the water himself)…and allow it to dry.
Then he’ll wait. Right before the next changing of the drones (as soon as he hears one approach), he’ll unroll about 30 feet of toilet paper and twist it to make it slightly stronger. He’ll try to throw the willow shoot like a dart at the drone that’s leaving, hoping to hit it. Regardless of whether it hits, he’ll attempt to haul the willow shoot back towards his cell while shaking the toilet paper to create as much movement as possible (without breaking it, since it is…one ply…).
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But really...there is some swearing. He'll then take a break and smoke a cigarette. He'll come back to the rope ("rope") after that and make an attempt to change his angle/slide the cuff further up the desk leg and tug, then concede defeat. When drone shift change happens, he'll wiggle it around/slide the cuff up and down just to see if it attracts any attention, but it’ll be semi-idle.
Once we're into day 004 🙌 Martin 🙌 will tell him about opening the cells by luring the drones to the door...leaving him many, many hours to ponder. (If drone arrival/departure coincides with the announcements, Rust’ll use that to keep track of time.)
He will: eat another mango and observe the drones and their docking stations for about an hour, trying to discern: any patterns in the lights, whether the drones have any obvious (…to someone from 1995) sensors, how and where they’re connected to the stations, and if the stations have any visible cords/plugs.
He’ll also experiment with drawing their attention (which I don’t anticipate yielding any results, but you know). Antics will include: lighting his lighter and extending the flame through the bars, cutting off a chunk of the mattress and flicking it at them, and making noise by banging the lid of the toilet tank down, as well as some good old-fashioned yelling.
All that out of the way, get ready for Even Worse Rope! He’ll try to cut a horizontal slit through the center of a willow shoot—if successful, he’ll thread toilet paper through it, wrapping the end of the roll around the shoot and tying it in whatever semblance of a knot one-ply will allow. If unsuccessful at carving the slit, he’ll wrap even more of the toilet paper around the shoot (over and over and over), knot it as best he can, moisten it with…toilet water (doing his best not to touch the water himself)…and allow it to dry.
Then he’ll wait. Right before the next changing of the drones (as soon as he hears one approach), he’ll unroll about 30 feet of toilet paper and twist it to make it slightly stronger. He’ll try to throw the willow shoot like a dart at the drone that’s leaving, hoping to hit it. Regardless of whether it hits, he’ll attempt to haul the willow shoot back towards his cell while shaking the toilet paper to create as much movement as possible (without breaking it, since it is…one ply…).